darkened grid overlay
This element features a smokey, translucent text-layer over a background image.
The high-contrast color combination works nicely with hover-reveal effects where an explanatory text-overlay emerges once an image acquires focus.
While this example leverages CSS grid to achieve the overlapping effect, the same could be done with an absolutely positioned div and a bit of z-index. I'm just trying to get more fluent with grid at the moment.